Posts by alphalpha

alphalpha · Documentation

In this guide, I want to show how to manually setup your wireless lan connection, so your laptor automatically connects to the network nearby.
If you are using the network-manager service, you don't need any of this.

1 - make sure '/etc/network/interfaces' contains the following lines, where wlan0 in this case is the name of the network adapter

iface default inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
	wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

2 - if you don't have '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ', create it and make sure only root can acces it because it will contain your passwords

sudo touch /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
sudo chown root:root /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
sudo chmod 600 /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

3 - to get the stanza's for your network, copy the output of the following command to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

wpa_passphrase 'YOUR ACCESSPOINT' 'YOUR PASSWORD'

Here is an example how /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf should look.
For networks that use the same ESSID, add the mac address and optional a priority.

# for documentation see:
# less /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/examples/wpa-roam.conf
# zless /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz  
# zless /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.modes.gz

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=netdev
#ap_scan=1
update_config=1

# Home
network={
	bssid=AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA
	ssid="Foo"
	#psk="12345678"
	psk=15af1abdaa5ea8efaa1d28551496c934f5e7183f426b444dd1c33d679501cb11
	priority=7
}

# Upstairs
network={
	bssid=BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB
	ssid="Foo"
	#psk="88888888"
	psk=02dee96ae4492999724eb74f23bacac61a111f5a7f53c89bd83eba764a5d904f
	priority=5
}

# Office
network={
	ssid="Office"
	#psk="88888888"
	psk=166f4b50fafb6cb5c63e5ebf9b35b2171da85f7c554e787c10fef654abba3a16
}

alphalpha · Desktop and Multimedia

 apt show qtsystems5-dev 
Package: qtsystems5-dev
Version: 5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4+b3
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: qtsystems-opensource-src (5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4)
Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 265 kB
Depends: libqt5publishsubscribe5 (= 5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4+b3), libqt5serviceframework5 (= 5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4+b3), libqt5systeminfo5 (= 5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4+b3), qtbase5-dev
Homepage: https://www.qt.io/developers
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Download-Size: 50.6 kB
APT-Sources: https://ftp.fau.de/devuan/merged chimaera/main amd64 Packages

i have it on chimaera
maybe you have to enable backports

alphalpha · Off-topic

You could use a mini pci-e to usb card, if you have a free slot
There are also cards that can take two micro sd cards

alphalpha · Off-topic

i have some disc shaped magnets here

alphalpha · Desktop and Multimedia

aitor wrote:

DEB packages of version 78.15.0 are available at:
http://packages.gnuinos.org/gnuinos/pool/main/i/icecat/
I announced them yesterday night in the irc channel. It looks good in chimaera:

is this a fork of icecat?
according to https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/, the last version is 60.7.0 and was realeased june 2019
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/60.7.0/

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

The hard way:
Make a live-CD with live-sdk by fsmithred
The easy way:
```
sudo refractasnapshot-gui
```
click on Help if you need insturctions or just select the first option and give it a try
make sure you have enough free space: if your system is 20GB in size you need another 20GB for the copy + a few gigs for the squash and the iso file

alphalpha · Hardware & System Configuration

Check your bios options, sometimes there is an option to set numlock at boot.

alphalpha · Desktop and Multimedia

There are multiple lines where you can set the font in .jwmrc

<!--	┏┳┓┏━╸┏┓╻╻ ╻   ┏━┓╺┳╸╻ ╻╻  ┏━╸	 -->
<!--	┃┃┃┣╸ ┃┗┫┃ ┃   ┗━┓ ┃ ┗┳┛┃  ┣╸ 	 -->
<!--	╹ ╹┗━╸╹ ╹┗━┛   ┗━┛ ╹  ╹ ┗━╸┗━╸	 -->
<MenuStyle>
  <Font>Inconsolata-16:antialias=true:encoding=utf8</Font>
  <Foreground>#ffffff</Foreground>
  <Background>#2b2c2b</Background>
  <Outline>#2b2c2b</Outline>
	<Active>
	  <Foreground>#2b2c2b</Foreground>
	  <Background>#dc6434</Background>
	</Active>
</MenuStyle>

<!--	╻ ╻╻┏┓╻╺┳┓┏━┓╻ ╻   ┏━┓╺┳╸╻ ╻╻  ┏━╸	 -->
<!--	┃╻┃┃┃┗┫ ┃┃┃ ┃┃╻┃   ┗━┓ ┃ ┗┳┛┃  ┣╸ 	 -->
<!--	┗┻┛╹╹ ╹╺┻┛┗━┛┗┻┛   ┗━┛ ╹  ╹ ┗━╸┗━╸	 -->
<WindowStyle decorations="flat">
  <Font align="center">Dejavu-11:antialias=true:encoding=utf8</Font>
  <Width>2</Width>
  <Height>19</Height>
  <Corner>2</Corner>
  <Foreground>#030303</Foreground>
  <Background>#dc6434</Background>
  <Outline>#2b2c2b</Outline>
  <Opacity>1</Opacity>
	<Active>
	  <Foreground>#030303</Foreground>
	  <Background>#feee92</Background>
	  <Outline>#2b2c2b</Outline>
	</Active>
</WindowStyle>

<!--	┏┓ ┏━┓┏━┓   ┏━┓╺┳╸╻ ╻╻  ┏━╸	 -->
<!--	┣┻┓┣━┫┣┳┛   ┗━┓ ┃ ┗┳┛┃  ┣╸ 	 -->
<!--	┗━┛╹ ╹╹┗╸   ┗━┛ ╹  ╹ ┗━╸┗━╸	 -->
<TrayStyle decorations="flat">
  <Font>Inconsolata-11:antialias=true:encoding=utf8</Font>
  <Background>#333333</Background>
  <Foreground>#aaaaaa</Foreground>
  <Outline>#333333</Outline>
	<Active>
	  <Foreground>#333333</Foreground>
	  <Background>#feee92</Background>
	</Active>
</TrayStyle>

<PagerStyle>
  <Font>Dejavu-8:antialias=true:encoding=utf8</Font>
  <Outline>#454947</Outline>
  <Text>#ffffff</Text>
  <Foreground>#454947</Foreground>
  <Background>#565656</Background>
	<Active>
	  <Foreground>#454947</Foreground>
	  <Background>#dc6434</Background>
	</Active>
</PagerStyle>

<ClockStyle>
  <Font>Dejavu-11:weight=demibold:antialias=true:encoding=utf8</Font>
</ClockStyle>

<PopupStyle>
  <Font>Dejavu-10:antialias=true:encoding=utf8</Font>
  <Outline>#323232</Outline>
  <Foreground>#ffffff</Foreground>
  <Background>#323232</Background>
</PopupStyle>

if nothing changes there is probably a syntax error somewhere

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

LarryDC wrote:

Some observations:
1 - The wallpaper.sh script seems to have an error:
line 2 :
LINK="$HOME/.local/wallpaper"
should be:
LINK="$HOME/.local/wallpaper.png"
2 - update_qutebrowser.sh no longer finds LATEST_VERSION
My kludge is to insert the following as line 22:
LATEST_VERSION="v2.4.0"

Hi Larry,
thanks for helping to improve this project.
The file extiension for the wallpaper was dropped on purpose, when i made the new gui wallpaper chooser ( themes > wallpaper > select wallpaper )
but i see that i forgot to change that in the "old" way.
This command should fix it for now:

sed -i 's:WP=".local/wallpaper.png":WP=".local/wallpaper":' ~/.config/jwm/dynamic/wallpaper.sh

You should try the gui wallpaper changer if you have not discovered it yet, its way more elegant

I noticed the qutebrowser update problem too (and the one for shotcut), on monday i did upload a new iso where this is fixed
but no need to reinstall the whole thing, i uploaded all relevant scripts on gitlab just now.
Actually i did update more of the scripts so the best thing would be to just copy the .local/Script directory and overwrite everthing that has changed

git clone https://gitlab.com/_alphalpha_/forge-dotfiles.git
cp -R forge-dotfiles/.local/Scripts/* .local/Scripts

In the beowulf release this would be done automatically with 'update_all' but i decided to drop that feature.
From now on you will be able to see new gitlab commits in newsbeuter (super + , )
the rss feed should already be there, you can refresh the list with 'r'

Edit: also to get the calendar working, create .config/kalendar directory

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

tuxnoobfr wrote:

please can you clone goodlifelinux? it was so lightweight and it only had a few programs installed by default

Sorry i am not going to clone a distro that i never heard of, and lightweight in terms of disk usage is not my motto
you can easily make your own devuan iso with refractasnapshot

tuxnoobfr wrote:

I was never able to get wifi or wired working with all the derivatives on here, I know you guys don't spoonfeed newbies but jessie has been archived for a while

if you post some more details about that on irc or in the forum, i am pretty sure someone will help you

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

Hey Larry i am glad that you like it

LarryDC wrote:

I'm going to try and stick to your zsh since you've got so much added to it.

If you would rather use bash, you could just try chsh to bash, i have not tested this very well but the files that get sourced by zsh, also get sourced by .bashrc
and all scripts use sh anyway, so it should be mostly the same in theory, i just prefer the zsh's tab-complete.

LarryDC wrote:

As an aside: Is there any way of getting a small donation to you? Or do I have to wait until you visit the Boston area And I can take you out to dinner?

Thanks, i dont take donations, but if you would throw a fiver or something to someone who really needs it, that would be awesome.
Sadly i dont think i will be around Boston in the near or later future, but i will message you in that case

Let me know if there are any issues.

I personally have encountered 2 problems, that we could discuss here
I guess since this is not mentioned elsewhere i throw it in here
1) Scanning for wifi networks with Ceni now takes ages, it used to be a few seconds
i dont have a solution for this, but i also added setnet to the iso
2) i have one machine where i needed to manually setup the graphics driver in xorg.conf because it would not use the correct one although it is installed
but that machine is a strange beast anyway, it works great on all my thinkpads and my desktop

PS: Thanks to the person behind JWM-Kit! i forked you wallpaper tool and i love it
PPS: And also thanks to fsmithred for refracta and also to the whole Devuan team!

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

The project continues now under a new name:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=32180#p32180
Chimeara Iso will be uploaded today!

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

Forge - https://forge-os.sourceforge.io

formerly known as 'Michaels-Devuan-Edition'
based on experimental Refracta nodbus iso
uses Devuan Chimaera repos
Comes with 5 preconfigured window managers to choose from:
JWM, i3, bspwm, spectrwm and exwm (the latter one is sort of a meme)
Has a ton of software installed and configured:
Multiple browsers, office applications, audio and video production software, image editing and much more

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

andyprough wrote:

Any thought as to when your next update will be available?

whenever the chimaera release is

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

andyprough wrote:

Do you mind sharing any info you could regarding what distro you are using, where you got the browser packages from (or if you compiled them yourself), what desktop/window manager you are using (if any)? Also, does it work with all versions of these browsers, or only certain older versions?

i use an updated version of my own devuan distro that has not been released yet
it is originally based on the no-dbus version of refracta

firefox-esr comes from the devuan repos
icecat is downloaded from https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
palemoon from https://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/
and qutebrowser is installed with virtualenv as described here

the window manager does not matter, i have a bunch of them and they all work
and the browsers are all on the newest version

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

andyprough wrote:

I can't find a major browser (or even a minor graphical browser except oddballs like Dillo) that will run without dbus because of the GTK+ (or qt-dbus) dependencies in all of them.

i dont have dbus on my machine
here is a list of gui browsers that work for me: qutebrowser, icecat, palemoon, firefox

alphalpha · Off-topic

zapper wrote:

I wish there was a firefox build that was libre that didn't require that dbus nonsense."

firefox-esr does not require dbus, only libdbus-1-3 and libdbus-glib-1-2
and unlike palemoon i dont even get an error message that i have to ignore

alphalpha · Desktop and Multimedia

So i always have a multiple drivers installed on my system, because i use the iso on multiple machines
vesa, intel, nouveau, radeon etc
Since there is no config file in /etc/X11 that specifically states what to use, i am actually not sure which one of those i might be using at the moment
It has always worked fine for me until last week when i had a new machine (old hardware) and i had to specifically tell it to use the intel driver
So i am asking myself, how does the system decide what to use when there is no config file?

alphalpha · Installation

pcalvert wrote:

Here's a start:
https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/coreboot@c … 38710.html
I wish I had some better suggestions for you, but I am just beginning to research this topic.

there are some boards missing on the cooreboot website
for the complete list you need to clone the coreboot git and run 'make nconfig'

however if you want to go 100% libre, without blobs and intel me, you are stuck with LGA775 boards
and you can't have a graphics card because proprietary vbios, so that limits the list even further to those boards that have a vga port
and even then there might be some things that just wont work
i just built a machine last week, and i could only use 2 of the 4 ram banks or i would not get any video signal

alphalpha · Documentation

this one uses yad, imagemagick and xwallpaper to quickly create an plain-colored wallpaper

#!/bin/sh
FILE="$HOME/.local/wallpaper.png"

# use yad to select color value
COLOR="$(yad --title="Set Wallpaper" --color)"

# use imagemagick to create the png file
if [ "$COLOR" ]; then
  [ -e "$FILE" ] && rm "$FILE"
  convert -size $(xdpyinfo | awk '/dimensions/ {print $2}') canvas:$COLOR "$FILE"

# use xwallpaper to set the wallpaper
  xwallpaper --zoom "$FILE"
fi
exit 0

alphalpha · Other Issues

if it is a keyring issue, make sure your date and time are correct

alphalpha · Hardware & System Configuration

Not a KDE user, but it is normal that you need root privileges to shutdown and mount.
I cant tell you how KDE handles this by default, but what you can do is edit your /etc/sudoers

EDITOR=nano sudo visudo

and add this:

yourUserName ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff

maybe KDE uses the wheel group for this and you are not a member of the wheel group but i dont know

for mounting you can install usbpmount

sudo apt install usbpmount

alphalpha · Freedom Hacks

Spock wrote:

Also if I use a midi controller on my computer will it work with Alsa?

i would use Jack for midi stuff

alphalpha · Off-topic

JSM wrote:

But now comes the problem. How many Linux distributions and derivatives are there? It should be 5, maybe a maximum of 10. But unfortunately it really is a crisis! No, I don't mind if everyone thinks he have to make his own distribution. Should he, if he doesn't know how else to spend his life meaningfully.

i like the fact that there are tons of distros out there

JSM wrote:

But it bothers me that as a user I have to search for the good distributors in this pile of "crap" for days or months! This is what makes life difficult for us as a user!

it is really not that difficult, after all the differences are not always that big

the only crysis i see, is with those people who want to decide what other people use

alphalpha · Desktop and Multimedia

Just found out that Unreal Tournament 2004 came with a Linux installer
(only included in the DVD version with the Atari branding)
Works fine on chimaera!
I only needed to install libstdc++5
and to get sound working start it like this: aoss ./ut2004

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#51 Documentation » HOWTO: Manual Wifi roaming multiple networks (no network-manager) » 2022-03-05 14:22:06

#52 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » qtsystems5-dev » 2022-02-02 12:13:27

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#56 Re: Devuan Derivatives » refracta_11_xfce_i386-20211114_0205.iso » 2021-12-26 01:54:03

#57 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] NumLock on at boot time, possible? » 2021-12-25 18:56:42

#58 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Ugly fonts in JWM after upgrade » 2021-12-06 22:46:01

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#63 Devuan Derivatives » Forge OS » 2021-10-17 15:57:43

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#64 Re: Devuan Derivatives » JWM KIT love fest » 2021-10-05 20:34:01

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#66 Re: Devuan Derivatives » JWM KIT love fest » 2021-10-05 15:29:31

#67 Re: Off-topic » Palemoon drama, has gotten bad, » 2021-10-05 15:12:52

#68 Desktop and Multimedia » How does devuan choose which video drivers it uses? » 2021-09-30 15:28:38

#69 Re: Installation » When did Legacy BIOS cease to exist? » 2021-09-30 15:17:52

#70 Re: Documentation » yad tips and tricks. » 2021-09-27 12:32:13

#71 Re: Other Issues » keyrings » 2021-09-27 12:18:20

#72 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Mounting and shutdown not allowed as normal user » 2021-08-28 10:19:16

#73 Re: Freedom Hacks » Do not use pulseaudio » 2021-06-18 10:37:06

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#67 Re: Off-topic » Palemoon drama, has gotten bad, » 2021-10-05 15:12:52

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